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Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert

1769 - 1824

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Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert (August 12, 1769 – March 7, 1824) was a German physicist and chemist, and professor of physics at the University of Leipzig. From 1799-1824, he published the "Annalen der Physik", of which Poggendorffs "Annalen der Physik und Chemie" was a continuation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert is the 691st most popular physicist (down from 687th in 2019), the 4,852nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,810th in 2019) and the 91st most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert ranks 691 out of 851. Before him are Bert Bolin, Sulamith Goldhaber, Edwin H. Land, John Iliopoulos, Nicholas Kurti, and Bengt Edlén. After him are Nikolay Umov, Michael Fisher, Maurice Goldhaber, Leo Kadanoff, Yoseph Imry, and Burkhard Heim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1769, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert ranks 43. Before him are Gaetano Savi, George W. Campbell, Utagawa Toyokuni, Jane Marcet, Vasily Stasov, and Augustus Christian Frederick, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen. After him are Andreas Miaoulis, Friedrich Accum, DeWitt Clinton, Isaac Brock, Rose Philippine Duchesne, and Amelia Opie. Among people deceased in 1824, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert ranks 36. Before him are Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Agustín de Betancourt, Fyodor Alekseyev, Hans Nielsen Hauge, André Thouin, and Lachlan Macquarie. After him are François Levaillant, Jonathan Dayton, Mah Laqa Bai, Jane Taylor, and Charles Pinckney.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert ranks 4,855 out of 7,253. Before him are Jakob van Hoddis (1887), Oswald Teichmüller (1913), Hermann Oldenberg (1854), Wolfgang Blochwitz (1941), Walter Behrendt (1914), and Serge Gnabry (1995). After him are Edgar Reinhardt (1914), Roland Grapow (1959), Olga Oelkers (1887), Thomas Allofs (1959), Peter Scholl-Latour (1924), and Adolf Möller (1877).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert ranks 91. Before him are Walter Kaufmann (1871), Heinrich Kayser (1853), Walther Müller (1905), Georg Hermann Quincke (1834), Ralph Kronig (1904), and Paul Peter Ewald (1888). After him are Burkhard Heim (1925), Andreas von Ettingshausen (1796), Jürgen Kurths (1953), Ernst Ising (1900), Rudolf Haag (1922), and Walter Gordon (1893).

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